11/20/2009 5:00 am
Culture
LIZ SMITH FLASH! The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Mafia
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Mr. Waldron’s effort in analyzing material from the National Archives has been praised by Vanity Fair and Publisher’s Weekly and the revised edition of his book offers new revelations – including how Watergate figure Bernard Barker helped the Marcello and Trafficante mobs to kill JFK, how Barker was himself involved with underworld crime and at the same time, worked for Bobby Kennedy and the CIA. There is much new information here, also, about how a Georgia white supremacist group paid James Earl Ray to kill Dr. Martin Luther King.
You can see writers Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann this Sunday night at 8 PM (ET) discussing these revelations in a brand-new Discovery Channel documentary. I believe Legacy of Secrecy, meticulously researched, lays to rest all those who choose to believe there were no conspiracy theories that account for these horrible assassinations. There were and Lamar Waldron’s efforts prove it!
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I’m going to watch it with an open mind, but I have to admit I never did and don’t buy conspiracy theories regarding Kennedy or Martin Luther King Jr. Bobby Kennedy wasn’t assassinated, there was a grand conspiracy behind it. Marilyn Monroe didn’t take her life, the Kennedy’s bumped her off. No one died in the 60’s because they were killed, they were killed because of grand conspiracies.
I don’t know what to believe. But I remind myself about Nixon being in office and how corrupt and unjust he was. How he did indeed hide things and cover-up constantly. So when I think of that I can believe certain conspiracies.
Who to believe? Who to believe?
The flip side of the story is,historians now believe that JFK had Marilyn
Monroe murdered (via a crooked doctor) to,of course,silence her. What
goes around,comes around!
Dear Ronald…Mr. Wow simply doesn’t believe any conspiracy theories, though they are mighty entertaining. As to Miss Monroe, she was a deeply depressed person who had attempted suicide at least three times. She was 36 (old, in 1962 Hollywood) and had been fired humiliatingly from her last film. She had one terrible night and took those pills. It was not planned. Blah, blah, to the Kennedys, doctors and housekeepers. It takes away her humanity to make her the cog in some Byzantine conspiracy plot. But Mr. Wow knows that’s what people want to believe now.
Oh, and Diana’s driver was drunk and speeding. Period. Nobody had that blonde bumped off either.
All of these events happened before my time. By reading this book it opens our eyes to the truth or fallacy that surrounds the assassinations of our great men.(John, Bobby & Martin).
One nagging question, does it mean that the Russian immigrant who was subsequently shot to death and was blamed the sole killer of Pres. John Kennedy is not the killer but was framed and made the fall guy? Is it also true with Sirhan Sirhan? Now, was these so called Mafia ever brought to justice? Is it also true that M.Monroe had an affair with both Kennedy brothers? or was these a product of tabloid journalism?
Thanks Helen Moran and Mr. Wow for your kind replies and insights. You see how history could get so convoluted and twisted. It is the personal accounts of people who are actually there and had eyewitnessed what had occurred. It is the same thing with the 9/11, a lot of people are saying that there was conspiracy factor. What is that all about?
Anyway, I remember reading that MM died alone in her bungalow at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles of drug overdose. So many big names had died the same way before but no personal doctors were investigated unlike what happened to Nicole Smith and Michael Jackson. Elvis Presley was also one victim of OD but his physician was never held accountable.
Dear Lovely…Actually MM died alone in her modest Brentwood, CA home. She was for sure over-medicated, but when you are a great star, nobody ever says NO.
As to conspiracies, some do exist—well, Watergate! But Mr. Wow lacks imagination, perhaps. He just can’t get on board with conspiracies. That said, I will read this book, recommended by Miss Smith. But only because it was recommended by Miss Smith.